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Modern distribution of the Semitic languages. Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
- Afroasiatic Languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...
- West Semitic
The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping...
- East Semitic
East Semitic languages stand apart from other Semitic...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethiopian Semitic (also Ethio-Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant. It emerged from Proto-Semitic in the Early Bronze Age . It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age .
- concentrated in the Middle East
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which originated in the Middle East. Semitic languages are spoken by more than 470 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in large communities of people from different countries in North America and Europe.
- Afro-AsiaticSemitic
Central Semitic languages are one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages. Central Semitic can itself be further divided into two groups: Arabic and Northwest Semitic .
South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family, found in ( North and East) Africa and Western Asia .